People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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